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Splitter

//ˈsplɪtɚ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person or a thing that splits.
  2. 2
    a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences wordnet
  3. 3
    A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
  4. 4
    a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics wordnet
  5. 5
    A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
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  1. 6
    a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone wordnet
  2. 7
    A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups. colloquial
  3. 8
    A split-finger fastball.
  4. 9
    A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
  5. 10
    A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot. US
  6. 11
    One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
  7. 12
    A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
  8. 13
    A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.

Etymology

From split + -er.

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